Sights in Hakone
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Hakone Open-Air Museum
Once you’ve arrived at Hakone-Yumoto Station, you might want to stop in at the Hakone Tourist Information Centre in front before you start exploring. It’s possible to board the delightful two-car mountain train that slowly winds through the forest to Gōra. Between Odawara and Gōra on the toy-train Hakone-Tōzan Line is the Hakone Open-Air Museum. This art museum is a short walk from Chōkoku-no-mori Station, just before Gōra. As well as paintings, the museum has a 70,000-sq-metre outdoor sculpture park that features works by artists such as Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore. The outdoor bronzes are particularly lovely in the winter under a light blanket of snow.
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Hakone Museum of Art
Gōra is at the end of the Hakone-Tōzan Line and the start of the funicular and cable-car trip to Tōgendai on the shore of Ashi-no-ko. There’s nothing to see at Gōra, and you’ll probably want to wander on. Further up the hill, 10 minutes from Gōra Station, is the Hakone Museum of Art, which has an interesting moss garden and a collection of ceramics from Japan and across Asia.
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